A bizarre "Rule of Four" has been identified in the basic structure of the majority of inorganic materials—and scientists are stumped as to why. The pattern is found in the so-called "unit cell" of ...

A new model developed by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) extends the theory of elastic phase separation towards nanoscopic structures. Such ...

The research began by asking whether a minimal structural pattern could be meaningfully applied across very different domains. To explore this, the researchers introduced a four-phase structure — ...

Age-related cognitive decline is closely tied to changes in brain structure and functional interactions. Most prior neuroimaging studies have investigated aging using a single modality, either ...